Golden Forbidden Land: I am at the highest level, exploring the secrets of immortality

Now I can only pray that this key can open this door, otherwise, I will probably die.

"Hiss..."

If you don't look closely, you might think those thin snakes are fish, but the snake scales all over their bodies make my hair stand on end. Soon, the thin snake scales in the water that spread up were actually standing upside down.

Like barbs, they rushed towards my feet.

"Get out of here!"

While I was preparing to open this stone door, I kicked these little things hard with my feet. But once the snake scales touched my feet, it was like they were stuck, and I couldn't get rid of them no matter what.

My shoes were soon full of holes.

Those thin snakes densely popped their heads out of the water and crawled onto my feet. If these guys continued to crawl onto me, they would be torn into pieces. In a panic, I quickly stuffed the key into the door...

"Bang——"

A huge wave hit, and the entire narrow passage seemed to have collapsed. I don't know where this water came from. At this moment, there was no gap in the passage I passed through.

The surrounding walls gradually began to merge into the water, and the water looked a little turbid.

"Zizizizi——"

More and more thin snakes made terrifying sounds, and small bubbles appeared on the water surface, and the bubbles seemed to be spit out from the mouths of these little guys. As soon as the bubbles broke, they emitted a burst of white gas, lingering in the air, like a human figure.

"Cough cough——"

The smell of the smoke was particularly choking.

"Boom——"

The thin snake that gradually emerged from the water rolled its body in the narrow passage again, forming a huge water dragon king. It kept drilling towards the passage, and its goal seemed to be this stone door.

When the water dragon king saw the stone door in front of me, it was like a demon, and suddenly pushed out its strange head from the water. Strangely, I couldn't see its eyes.

"Bang——"

The huge body rushed directly towards me.

"Not good!"

I was a little scared and quickly slapped the key, but there seemed to be no response.

Seeing that the water dragon king was about to reload, I turned over in a hurry and climbed up the door with both hands. Fortunately, there were still many uneven carving marks on the door, so I leaned on the top of the stone door.

"Bang——"

The water dragon king hit the door directly, and the soil on the top fell down in large chunks.

However, I couldn't hold on for long.

"Zizizizi——"

Suddenly, I saw that the keyhole on the stone door started to rotate clockwise for some reason after being hit. Every few degrees of rotation, a strange light came out from the gap of the stone door around it.

As the cracks opened up, a terrifying light suddenly flashed from the door, like a person's shadow, but the light was so strong that I couldn't see clearly before everything went dark.

When I got used to it, the shadow disappeared, but the water dragon king in front of me roared heartbreakingly. Soon the water dragon king's body was torn into pieces, and there were pools of thin snake corpses everywhere on the ground.

The water level around the passage was slightly reduced.

"Boom--"

Unexpectedly, the stone door opened slowly, making a dull sound.

I jumped down after seeing that the thin snakes didn't have the terrifying momentum just now.

As the stone door slowly opened, I breathed a sigh of relief.

After the door opened, there was a wall in front of me at the innermost part, and there was a handprint on the wall. I looked at the handprint and it was about the same size as my hand, so I reached out without thinking.

"Ouch——"

I felt as if something stabbed me when my palm touched the stone wall. My body went numb and I quickly retracted my hand in fear.

But the handprint turned into a bloody handprint. I looked at my hand and found that my five fingers were pierced by something just now. The blood dyed the handprint on the whole wall red.

The stone wall burst open.

It was not big inside, more like a room, with bookshelves, desks, and chairs, which were neatly arranged. The bookshelves were densely packed with books. There was a small box on the desk, which seemed to have been there for a long time and was covered with dust.

However, the box did not have a keyhole, as if the surroundings were completely closed.

"Strange?"

I searched for a long time but found nothing.

After that, I searched along the bookshelf and the desk drawer. I searched almost every place, but there was no key, and even the tools that could open the box were not seen.

I wanted to smash the box open, but as soon as I raised my hand, I found that I was wrong. The box was extremely heavy and could not be moved at all. I knocked on the box, and it made a dull sound, which even made me feel like it was a piece of iron in front of me, and I was helpless.

After tossing and turning for a long time, I was a little tired. When I was about to sit down, I swung my hand and it directly touched my trouser pocket. What happened... I suddenly felt a chill on my thigh, so I reached out to take it out, but I almost forgot about it...

It was left to me by Ergou... It seemed to be an oval stone, and it also looked like an eye. When I looked at the stone, I always felt like an eye was staring at me.

I quickly put the stone on the table. At this moment, the stone was still emitting cold air, and it turned into a human-like outline in the air, as if dancing.

Then, the human-shaped smoke actually wrapped up the box on the table, and in the blink of an eye, all the smoke was sucked into the box.

"Pop——"

The box opened.

The fog all dissipated.

"Strange..."

Facing everything in front of me, I felt extremely incredible, and the stone seemed to have returned to normal at this time. I don't know where this stone came from, but it is very likely related to my grandfather.

"What is this?"

I noticed that there were several letters and a dilapidated notebook in the opened box in front of me. The title page was torn off, leaving only some scattered and scattered words.

So, I carefully took out the notebook...

"On March 9, I suddenly received a telegram from Professor Moi. He seemed very anxious and asked me to return to Kyoto immediately, saying that there was an extremely important discovery... I was very surprised. The professor is the dean of the Faculty of Literature at Kyoto University. He is at most a little accomplished in literature, but what does it have to do with me, an archaeologist..."

Archaeology?

Could it be that my grandfather was also an archaeologist when he was young, but I have never heard him mention it, and even my parents have never mentioned it. What is going on?

I continued to turn to the back of the book. The paper had turned yellow and there were some stains on the paper. I didn't know what it was.

"... I am not a literature lover. I don't want to discuss any literary issues with him, and I don't have the time. But this time, he seemed to tell me very seriously that his discovery may shock the literary and archaeological circles all over the world, and even change the course of the world..."

Change the course of the world?

What would that be? It's true... But in recent years, there haven't been any earth-shaking changes in the world, right? Except for the difficulty in finding a job and rising housing prices, there are no major events.

And Professor Moy, who has a good relationship with my grandfather, is just a literary worker. What is the important discovery he claims to have? What happened to the old man in the end?

I vaguely think that the old man was taken away by those weird people more than ten years ago, which may be related to the discovery of Professor Moy.

Before that, when I was about ten years old, my grandfather was respected by the villagers in the village. Whenever there was something wrong, the old man would have the final say. He practiced medicine, repaired houses, moved graves, and even told fortunes.

I quickly turned to the back.

But a few pages seemed to be covered by a large mass of ink, so most of the handwriting was unclear. I continued to turn to the back, and finally, I found my grandfather's handwriting on the last few pages.

But it was a little different from the previous record.

"In early April, Professor Mo Yi had been missing for more than half a month. I only found some incomplete manuscripts in his study. It seemed that he was studying a classical work - "Journey to the West". It is not difficult to analyze from those incomplete manuscripts that he seemed to have discovered an ancient language from it... Three days later, I received something sent to me by Professor Mo Yi. I roughly looked through the contents. It was a very old version of "Journey to the West", but the title on the cover was... "Rakshasa Ghost Record"..."

The notes stopped here, and the content behind seemed to have been torn off. The content recorded in this book "Journey to the West" is the information I am looking for.

There are also several letters in the box.

I took a look and found that almost all of them were letters between the old man and Professor Moy, which shows that their relationship is extraordinary.

But one of the letters, which is the last letter Professor Moy left for the old man, only has a few short sentences...